Tt eSports Level 10 M Headset, Poseidon Keyboard, New KB Switches, Theron Infrared - Computex 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is nc.com so we've got Eric here from tte
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orts who's going to be showing us some pretty cool stuff they've also got a lot
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of stuff that they've already released but why don't you start with this guy
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right here this is the Poseidon and it's a mechanical keyboard people love
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mechanical keyboards it's so big these days tell me two things why are
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mechanical keyboards such a big deal all of a sudden and number two is how does
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it how's this positioned in the market why do we need the Poseidon in addition
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to all your other mechanical keyboards okay so mainly people want mechanical
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keyboards these days because they're a lot more durable than membrane keyboards
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have been in the past sorry um so um
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it's really durable um it costs a little bit more but it's like guaranteed to
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last like 50 million keystrokes usually if it doesn't then you just return it
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get a new one so it just like keeps that lifetime cycle going so tell me about
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that durability because these are a lower cost mechanical keyboard but you
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can still you can still offer that guarantee to your customers yeah so um
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in the past I've done videos on YouTube um probably look for them I've I took a
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BMW and rolled over our Mecha G1 keyboard just to prove like it's really
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durable still works there's videos on YouTube um but the market position for
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this keyboard we decided to release something that's a little more cost affordable in the past our keyboards
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have been in like the 129 139 range um so we're trying to get something a
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little bit uh more affordable for every game gamer so uh what we decided to do
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is release a really simple entry-level mechanical keyboard so we came up with
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the Poseidon um we have a non-b backlight and a backlight version so the
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backlight uh version is going to be starting at $89.99 and the non-backlit
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is going to be $79.99 um but at the same time even
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though it's cost affordable we didn't want to compromise the durability so
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these keyboards are uh pretty robust um they can last quite a while and we're
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really excited for them pick that up and do a flex test for me because that
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that's that's my kind of trademark thing if we can get an angle on that real
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wrench on it because I always wrench on it so you can see guys when you have a
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cheap keyboard that thing is going to flex to the point where you can almost
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pop the keys off but even though this is a 70 this is a $79.99 keyboard right so
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that's getting down into the price ranges of something like a high-end
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membrane buy an entry-level mechanical
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not a high-end membrane I mean obviously buy a high-end mechanical if you can but
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speaking of high-end Mechanicals you have some new stuff coming on the
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high-end stuff too show me what we got over here okay so in the past we've uh
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mainly stuck with black switches so we've done gunit G1 Mecca with black
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switches so uh what we decided to do this year is come up with a lot more
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options for um people that want to buy red switches Brown switches Blue
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switches so um here we're showing off the gunit um with different switches we
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have a blue a red and a brown here um the red one here was showing off even
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the illuminated the full backlight version um so we really want to give
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people more options because um since new key switches are coming out more and
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more um Brown and red have become really popular in the gaming market so we want
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to be able to provide more people more options um depending on like if you want
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it really heavy switch a light switch um just depends on what your preference is
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now tell me if you tell me about if you wanted a headset that was designed in
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collaboration with BMW how would you address that customer can can you do
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that for me I would say Let's uh look over here right now because I I think
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that's a pretty tall order I'm throwing at you here mind you uh we we cheated a
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little bit I I I I I did actually get a tour of the booth before we started you
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know what let's put ourselves right here and I'll get you to stand right here and
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you can talk about this I'm just going to lean over you here so tell me about
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the level 10m gaming headset okay so we just unveiled this this morning at
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computex in collaboration with BMW design Works USA it's our level 10m
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headset um it follows the design philosophy of what we've released in the
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past the level 10m Mouse and the level 10 case and level 10 GT case from
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thermal take so we collaborated with them a lot of design philosophies went
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in you can see it's a really um like heavy style like more um robust metal um
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so we we decided that we're going to come out with a headset that's uh really
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durable um really stylish and something that um a lot of people will enjoy so
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show me some of the robustness like this looks like this looks like metal
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components here that are part of the sliding mechanism and uh and show show
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me the microphone the way it moves okay so yeah the um the main framework of the
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headset is alum umum so we want to keep it like lightweight but durable um and
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really really hard uh mold injected plastic for the ear cups um has 40 M 4
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40 mm uh sound drivers on it um and the
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microphone is uh really really flexible so you can position it um it's got like
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a joint in here you can position it depending on your preference you can
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switch the cable from the left to right side pretty easily um sometimes you know
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your desktop might be on the right or the left side so depending on how you
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want the key board uh the the sorry the headset cable to to switch uh positions
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you can do that with well I actually I mean the way that I configure my system
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is I like to have my headphone cable draping across WD so that um so that I
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can actually do both forward and back movement at the same time just by
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pressing on the cable do do you think that that's an optimal setup I I mean I
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don't think it's optimal but you can still do that with this headset awesome
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so I have the power yeah definitely so
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yeah definitely check this out uh we just announced it on uh this morning so
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it's going to be out on of course you're covering it but you can uh also research
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it on our website uh it's straight on the front page awesome we got one more
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thing that we want to have a look at over here so show us show us this
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guy okay so for people that commute
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definitely sometime a problem is that you have to buy separate headphones
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between gaming and commuting um you want to listen to music on the subway or the
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the bus or whatever um so we designed a Bluetooth ready headset set um that's
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also compatible with gaming so so what you can do is uh it's a gaming headset
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first and foremost so you have the microphone but when you want to take it out on the go you can actually unplug
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and have it Bluetooth ready with your phone so you can stream music from your
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phone in your pocket and just have it on wirelessly and so can you give us a
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little can you give us a little twirl twirl here show show us yeah there thank
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you do do a little turn on the catwalk yeah little model work and uh another
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interesting thing about this is even if you don't really need the microphone you
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can detach the cable and plug straight into your PC so you have the option of
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using uh microphone no microphone PC
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wireless and you can charge through USB so it's a really Sleek headset we're
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kind of uh aiming to simplify the style a little bit so it's not so much a look
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at me when I'm commuting it's more of a just I want to relax I want to get ready
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for work things like that but you do have look at me products can you pull one of those down for me really quick I
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want like just for contrast guys thermaltake has such an enormous range
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of products available on headsets here let's uh let's let's let's let's get
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this let's get this up so if I didn't want to wear this on
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the subway I could wear that instead and I would have every I would have the
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entire gamut of designed in collaboration with BMW and kind of
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striking but very stylish I'd have that
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sort of that wow holy crap look at this guy he's got a gold headset on and then
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you've got the more like uh you know some guy who just wants to chill and
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though please don't look at me yeah I mean the design Philosophy for our company is that we want to have
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something for everyone whether you want to simple um Sleek design or you want
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something a little bit more colorful a little bit more complicated I mean we
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have something for everyone we have you know we have a headset for Xbox Gamers
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we have um simplified mechanical keyboards for people that want a really
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like Sleek desktop so um we make something for everyone so it's it's kind
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of our design philosophy we keep coming out with new products and that's going
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to hit a different style so that's what we're looking forward to it's not all
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style sometimes there's a performance reason for what you do so right here
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what what have you done here exactly okay so uh Theon has been a really
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successful Mouse for us a lot of people like it so we want to offer um new color
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options so we have uh white red and yellow coming out um with a glossy
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finish so just depending on the style we have uh the old traditional Theon was uh
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rubber coating so we wanted to add a little bit more options comes with the
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same great laser sensor that's in um the the original Theon but here we have a
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new option which is a Theon infrared it has a new infrared Optical sensor and
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this is uh built to improve tracking for your gaming but it's also lower cost
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it's going to come out about $10 us cheaper than the original Theon was so
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it's a lower cost high performance option for this mouse so to be clear for
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69 or $79.99 so for 80 bucks plus about
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55 bucks could you could you get a combo here that you you would feel comfortable
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using regardless of who you you pretty much are yeah I mean it's simple enough
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um but it's also stylish enough um to really take your game up to the next
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level um I even actually game with these two uh Theon infrared and the Poseidon
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keyboard right now I play a lot of Starcraft so I'm really confident in the
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fact that you can perform with these products so okay I actually didn't know
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that I did not I did not cheat on that one so thank you very much for joining
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us this has been absolutely fantastic guys don't miss any of our computex 23
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coverage and again thank you very much thank you